Best Defense (1984)

  • R
  • 07/20/1984 (US)
  • Comedy, Action
  • 1h 34m

Unfortunately, they're both on our side.

Overview

Wylie is a lazy engineer. Landry is a Sergeant specialising in Armour. They have never met but their lives become entangled when Landry must take the tank Wylie designed into combat. Wylie is waiting for his employer to go out of business when he meets another engineer who gives him a disk with the plans for a system that will save his employer. The other engineer is dead moments later leaving Wylie with the disk and credit for the design. Suddenly Wylie is no longer a hack, but the saviour of his company and finds his life is no longer the same.

Willard Huyck

Director, Screenplay

Robert Grossbach

Novel

Gloria Katz

Screenplay

Cast

Dudley Moore's headshot

Dudley Moore

Wylie Cooper
Eddie Murphy's headshot

Eddie Murphy

Lieutenant T.M. Landry
Kate Capshaw's headshot

Kate Capshaw

Laura Cooper
George Dzundza's headshot

George Dzundza

Steve Loparino
Helen Shaver's headshot

Helen Shaver

Clair Lewis
Pamela Stonebrook's headshot

Pamela Stonebrook

Singer, Rive Gauche Room
Tom Noonan's headshot

Tom Noonan

Frank Holtzman
David Paymer's headshot

David Paymer

Kurly

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